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Global food production has more than doubled over the past 40 years, growing faster than population, and will likely keep pace in the 21st century. Yet today one-eighth of the world's people lack secure access to the food they need to live active and healthy lives. This volume describes how...
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The paper is a documentation of a (non-representative) survey on the food situation of households in the Grodno region, Belarus. It covers the year between September 2000 and August 2001. The focus of the survey was on the sources of food in the households (purchase, own production, and receipt...
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development; examines literacy rates, access to education, nutrition, health, housing and sanitation; discusses poverty, basic …
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There is a strong relationship between gender-based discrimination and the different channels through which households and individuals access food—through own-production, access to waged employment, or social protection. The report shows that while equality of treatment between women and men...
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This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as … costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide … relevant nutrition-specific interventions, largely delivered through the health sector, and at multisectoral nutrition …
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policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers … nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new …
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Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to … experience of scaling up successful interventions in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition under five broad headings: (1 …) the role of rural community engagement, (2) the importance of value chains, (3) the intricacies of scaling up nutrition …
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The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture using different methods to measure these changes. The results suggest that spatial structure of crop productions has remained fairly stable during analysed period. The spatial...
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